From: Graham Cobb > I've read the post and it sounds great, except that that is not how > repositories work, unfortunately. What you want is multiple sources of apps, > with people being able to choose where they want to get their apps from > (vendors, communities, hackers, ones with support, ones where you are living > on the bleeding edge, etc.). Unfortunately neither DEB nor RPM can do that > for you.
> The biggest problem is shared resources. To see the problem, assume that > there is a library, libfoo, which provides a useful service, used by several > apps, but which can be built with different options (there are many examples > in real-life: security libraries support multiple encryption algorithms, > sound libraries support multiple sound architectures, communications > libraries support wired, wireless, etc). Graham, (et al.) I appreciate your concern about shared resources, but it seems to me that you are overstating the problem. As an example, I quickly checked the repository lines in sources.list on several different Ubuntu boxes I support. One box included a third party repository for TOR. Another included third party repositories for Chromium and Scratchbox. It seems as if there is a long, well established tradition of supporting multiple repositories. Yes, it is possible that two different apps might rely on libraries with the same name but different features, but if this is a significant problem, then I would expect bug tracking systems to rapidly uncover and lead towards a proper resolution of the problems, and community pressure would lead towards the two different application repositories to resolve their issues or see one of them fall out of favor. Aldon _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
